Creetown Initiative was asked by the Holywood Trust to take over the management of Newton Stewart Youth Club in 2013, after the former Newton Stewart Initiative folded. We ran the youth club in Newton Stewart for 5 years, providing a weekly junior club for young people aged 10 – 12 and a senior club...
Friday night is Sport Night! Creetown Initiative’s youth work team run youth sports sessions on Friday evenings, term time, from the Waverley Hall. The junior session is for children aged 5 – 9 and runs 6pm – 7pm, and the senior session is for young people aged 10 – 17, 7pm – 8pm. The...
Creetown Initiative was engaged by the Wild Film Festival Scotland to develop and run a series of film making workshops for young people from the west of Dumfries and Galloway. The result was ‘Galloway Winter’ – a magazine style wildlife documentary made by 14 – 18 year olds. Celebrating the Natural World Captured Through...
Creetown Initiative’s youth work team will be delivering a series of film making workshops during the first week of the Easter holidays. Young people aged 11 – 17 are encouraged to come along to an informal audition on Tuesday 22nd March 5:30pm – 6:30pm in the Creetown Initiative office. Local young person, Ryan Hewitson,...
The old gymnasium at the Douglas Ewart High School was transformed into a manic game zone on Monday night! 35 members of the Newton Stewart Junior Youth Club took part in the fun, safe, nerf wars games and delighted in ‘shooting’ their comrades and leaders! Nerf guns are a popular children’s toy that fire...
